Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast plantations producing rubber, palm oil, tobacco, tea, sugar and coffee chat have been in foreign hands for decades. It was an action that seemed certain to depress even further the nation's faltering economy (the Indonesian rupiah stands at 450 to the dollar on the free market, as opposed to a "legal" value of 45 to the dollar). At week's end, despite the strafing, the grumbling of members of the dismissed Parliament, and the political and military unrest, President Sukarno was still planning to leave on April 1 for another of his long junkets, this time...
...students taking economics shows no discernible upward trend," although in the same decade the number of Americans who own stock has nearly doubled from 6,500,000 to 12,500,000-owing, in no small part, to Funston's own efforts to bring new investors into the stock market...
...York's Nyack High School who collected 50? from each pupil to form an investment pool. Together the class conducted an enthusiastic search for the right company in which to invest their $18, finally bought one share of American Zinc (price last week: $15), avidly followed the market fortunes of "their" company all year-learning something of taxes, tariffs and fiscal policy in the process. To top it off, American Zinc President Howard Young heard about the experiment, at year's end visited the class himself to conduct an "annual meeting" and answer questions. Said Funston: "I hope...
...suffering before he can comprehend their motivation. His first and only love affair is with a girl not much older than he who is both a prostitute for the German troops and a spy for the partisans. He sees his comrades die while other Poles play the black-market game, digs for acorns in the snow when the last potato is gone. And all the time he remains in part a baffled child who avidly reads about American Indians. He also learns to kill. But not even his patriotism and his hatred of the enemy can protect him from...
Corner on the Pooch Market. The main themes of Ko are, as its dust jacket states, "baseball, neurosis, art and death; travel, weather, self-realization and power; love, error, prophesy, destruction and pleasure." Among the characters who reel through the commotion of Koch's jouncing, rhymed octaves (following the rhythm of Byron's Don Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish...